Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[The Geek]

you may need to do both.

Remove any line that only reads:
=false;
or
= false;

from admincp/index.php

Then check the other points I mentioned.

[EchoZA]

O.K. that seemed to work, but now I am sitting with 2 GAB Manager sections in my AdminCP

[EchoZA]

I've removed it again, can't seem to get it installed properly. Do you have a manual install list?

[EchoZA]

O.K. I am trying again...

Removed all upload files and all origional files in place, upload files, set CHMOD to 777 on dirs, ran install no errors reported.

Step by step

Attempting to auto hack files (in /).
Trying to make gish/gab ... Success!
Trying to make gish/gab/Beta 2.0 ... Success!
gish/gab already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0 already exists.
Trying to make gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup ... Success!
copying global.php to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/ ... Success!
copying global.php to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup/ ... Success!
Modifying file: global.php
Completed step 100
Saving changes to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/global.php

gish/gab already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0 already exists.
gish/gab already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0 already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup already exists.
Modifying file: global.php
Completed step 101
Saving changes to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/global.php

gish/gab already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0 already exists.
Trying to make gish/gab/Beta 2.0/admincp ... Success!
gish/gab already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0 already exists.
gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup already exists.
Trying to make gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup/admincp ... Success!
copying admincp/index.php to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/admincp/ ... Success!
copying admincp/index.php to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/backup/admincp/ ... Success!
Modifying file: admincp/index.php
Completed step 200
Saving changes to gish/gab/Beta 2.0/admincp/index.php

File Changes complete.
All files I changed are in /Beta 2.0. You will need to copy those over to their forum locations once you are satisfied they are changed correctly.
Completed Install!

Will no copy files across and check again.

[EchoZA]

O.K. had to remove the = false; and now I have access to my ADMINCP, now when I check my GAB menu looks nothing like your screenshots? When I click save settings, I get "GAS_settings_saved" phrase could not be found, and where do I upload the banners? I'm going to read through this thread again!

[EchoZA]

Oh! Happy Days, got it all working, read through this thread and checked all the errors and double checked my install, and now is working! Thanks for a GREAT hack, can't wait for the next installment (hopefully a little less troublesome than this install )

[EchoZA]

Quick question, how do I get the banners to display on my portal pages, search pages, chat page etc? Working fine on forum, but for the life of me can't figure out how to add it to the other pages. Thanks! www.treatingyourself.com

[CaitSith4343]

I am currently having a little trouble. I installed everything ok I think, but I still have errors. When I click on "add packages" I get the following error:


Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM vb3_GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'caitsith_vBulletin.vb3_GAB_packages' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Tuesday 14th of June 2005 12:50:39 PM
Script: http://EDITED/forums/admincp/GAB_adm...isplaypackages
Referer: http://EDITED/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav
Username: EDITED
IP Address: EDITED


Also, how do I actually add my adsense?

Thanks,
CaitSith4343

[EchoZA]

Originally Posted by CaitSith4343

I am currently having a little trouble. I installed everything ok I think, but I still have errors. When I click on "add packages" I get the following error:


Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM vb3_GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'caitsith_vBulletin.vb3_GAB_packages' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Tuesday 14th of June 2005 12:50:39 PM
Script: http://EDITED/forums/admincp/GAB_adm...isplaypackages
Referer: http://EDITED/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav
Username: EDITED
IP Address: EDITED


Also, how do I actually add my adsense?

Thanks,
CaitSith4343

looks like a database issue, are you sure you added all the tables into the database?

[CaitSith4343]

I'm new to all this and I'm not really sure what you mean by tables :nervous:
Anyways, I uploaded the files in the upload folder, I went to the install url and did all the steps until the file changes, then I did them manually because I wasnt really sure how to do it the other way and didnt want to mess anything up. After that I just went to admincp and then got the error. Where and how do I add these "tables"?

[The Geek]

Packages dont work as they were not implimented at the time this beta was uploaded Nor are the packages required for the banners to work.

What you may need to do is add the phrase GAB_add_ad with the text 'Add ad' to the global Control Panel phrases so that you can add the ad so to speak

[rrr]

rrr & madman. So you want to give banners based on postcounts? Im sure that wouldnt be too hard to do - but I will reserve that one for the GUSH add on.

Woo hoo...nice to here!

May I ask what a "gush add on" is?

[venomx]

Still hoping this will allow people to use UCash to buy ads too

[iChambers]

Originally Posted by venomx

Still hoping this will allow people to use UCash to buy ads too

You should have in the admin a external html box for other banners such as adsense code, flash banners code, or affiliate banners html that we get from other sites. I currently use PHPAdNews which seems to work great in that since but I do prefer one admin panel to manage the banners and site which would be vB Admin; may want to look into phpAdsNews and possible get some ideas for the have weight, time, day, when, where, etc and another thing is export html code so you can have a group of banners on other sites.

[The Geek]

I dont use adsense so its difficult to test - however I think I have made the next version compatable with adsense or affiliate stuff.
We shall see. Its about ready (please remember that the GUSH stuff is coming AFTER this goes gold - and most likely not until AFTER vb3.5 does too).